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Okay, no disagreement there. It's difficult to make sense of what you're trying to say here because you're using words differently from Aristotle it s...
October 13, 2017 at 21:53
Which is the real self? The metaphysical self? :B
October 13, 2017 at 21:15
Surely it could be a fluctuation I do not care what it is for the purposes of this discussion, but it must be something actual, not an infinite potent...
October 13, 2017 at 19:20
Aha! Exactly. Now we're getting onto something. So the phenomenon is very similar to this. When we're attempting to apply our models to reality at the...
October 13, 2017 at 19:12
Were you present at old PF?
October 13, 2017 at 18:48
Well, I will make an argument once you explain to me how you go from the vagueness in the map to vagueness in the territory. I'm looking to see how yo...
October 13, 2017 at 18:47
I once tried to make a joke about Sapientia but it got deleted :’(
October 13, 2017 at 18:09
To clarify this, as I said before, I hold no issue with you if you want to tell us that vagueness exists at the level of the model or the map. But I d...
October 13, 2017 at 17:58
Yes. The underlying feature of all this (undemocratic, strong-man, blood brotherhood, soil, etc.) is founded on the locus of the nation (hence the par...
October 13, 2017 at 17:52
Right transsexualism itself isn't metaphysical - I never meant to imply that. So no, it doesn't have anything to do with metaphysics. When something -...
October 13, 2017 at 17:31
Well how do you understand it? Translate the corresponding words. "I think the phenomenon of transsexualism (ie, what the transexual experiences) invo...
October 13, 2017 at 13:52
Oh and I said it is? :s You're having a hard time today it seems to me.
October 13, 2017 at 13:24
You say that I am ill-informed. So... what about this? The so-called "many" ideological differences can be reduced to one - the locus of national soci...
October 13, 2017 at 13:18
So that's not metaphysics? :-} :-d
October 13, 2017 at 13:12
I think the phenomenon of transexualism involves such a degree of infatuation of desire with its object that the object is transformed from an empiric...
October 13, 2017 at 13:07
Yeah, all the Eastern European states have had such a history pretty much, apart from maybe Hungary which was an Empire at one point :P (well part of ...
October 13, 2017 at 11:44
Oh yes, the great and virtuous communists who gave their life in opposition to everything evil... :s National Socialism was still a form of socialism....
October 13, 2017 at 11:35
Oh? So my remarks regarding your philosophy's incapacity to reach the level of ontology isn't something you disagree with? Fine. I never knew you had ...
October 13, 2017 at 11:32
Not really. I'm not suggesting some racial tendency because China and Germany for example both display this trait, and they are formed of different ra...
October 13, 2017 at 08:21
What do you mean?
October 13, 2017 at 08:18
There is something very peculiar in the blood of certain nations. It seems to be in their nature to be powerful for some reason. Even if they get comp...
October 13, 2017 at 08:14
Mathematics, logic, and reasoning are not the same thing. Mathematics is a set of tools, based on logic and intuition that allows us to create, in som...
October 13, 2017 at 08:04
No, but it does make an argument for scientific anarchy and allowing crankery even if you don't approve of it or engage in it. Novel and correct scien...
October 13, 2017 at 07:51
*shrug* I always support the ruling party :s (joking lol!)
October 13, 2017 at 07:45
Well if you want your vagueness to apply only to mathematics and epistemology that is fine, but I thought we were talking about ontology. I've already...
October 12, 2017 at 21:16
Have you read Feyerabend's Against Method? Today's science is yesterday's pseudoscience ;)
October 12, 2017 at 20:37
Desire is always fascinated with the obstacle, the rival. What is hardest to attain, what rejects it the most, what humiliates it, that is its attract...
October 12, 2017 at 20:05
Oh? And they will see past messages?
October 12, 2017 at 16:53
Getting back to you on this @"Baden". If according to you no one can see PMs, what happens if someone sends a very nasty PM to me, for example? I can'...
October 12, 2017 at 16:12
Don't worry, I suppose if this guy posts here, his posts would be deleted as unscientific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson And he's a No...
October 12, 2017 at 11:32
Yeah, that piece of paper makes a big difference in some people's minds :-}
October 12, 2017 at 11:30
>:O But seriously, that book is quite legendary apparently.
October 12, 2017 at 11:22
One time actually, there were a lot of cheap copies on Amazon of it, for like $12. I ordered 8 of them that time with the hope of re-selling 7 of them...
October 12, 2017 at 11:17
Will reading that help me grow my business by 50,000%? >:)
October 12, 2017 at 11:15
Yeah but it's not of world-renowned fame as one of the best business books ever written...
October 12, 2017 at 11:12
Yep, that's what real books cost. Like this one. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nufPGSawL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg I've been cu...
October 12, 2017 at 11:09
It's not impossible for sure. I know it can be done. The information is stored in a database, whoever has access to it could, in theory, read it. As f...
October 12, 2017 at 10:57
No. The detachment (and intensification) of desire from the natural object and its reattachment to the model/rival counts as psychopathology.
October 12, 2017 at 10:54
Can moderators or administrators see our PMs?
October 12, 2017 at 09:40
Yes, just because it is "recognized" doesn't mean that it's a right recognition. Narcissism isn't a psychological condition, it's just an (unconscious...
October 12, 2017 at 09:23
No, I mean that narcissism is a strategy, not a psychological category. That's why it's a superficial analysis.
October 12, 2017 at 09:17
Well, philosophers tend to view the world as being made of the hoi polloi and themselves too. So that's not that unheard of either. This may be true, ...
October 12, 2017 at 09:12
Do you think anything of this sort will happen? Actually he wrote a letter to a pen pal of his who published it. He asked them to buy him Roman philos...
October 12, 2017 at 09:00
No, I never said there was anything in-between. There is no in-between. There is no empty space between the white line and the green line, the two are...
October 12, 2017 at 08:58
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/martin-shkreli-comforts-gangsters-prison-article-1.3548365 Interesting news from Pharma Bro.
October 12, 2017 at 08:43
No. I denied that there is any in-between. A transition is a process - your eye goes from green line to white line. It's not a thing. There is NOTHING...
October 11, 2017 at 21:03
Where did I say that?
October 11, 2017 at 20:47
No, that doesn't mean PNC fails to apply. It only means that the boundary cannot have the property of color because it is not a thing, and therefore s...
October 11, 2017 at 20:39
There is no boundary as a thing. You've done nothing to show that there is such a boundary. Oh, so how are these different dichotomies related one to ...
October 11, 2017 at 19:59
Some have an emotional investment in the word "God" and others have an emotional investment in the word "No God".
October 11, 2017 at 19:00